User:Mgould
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky was born and bred in New York City. He organized his first sit-down strike in 1st grade against bad lunch food. As a high schooler, he helped launch a citywide network called Youth Bloc, which mobilized young people in the schools and the streets against corporate control, budget cuts, the invasion of Iraq. He spit spoken word and somehow won the Urban Word Poetry Slam for 2003. Check out his work in Nation Books' Poets Against the War.
Here at Harvard, Michael has been deeply involved in student solidarity work. In a much-needed break from the United States, he was honored to spend the past summer in Argentina working in an aluminum factory under workers' cooperative control. This year, he co-founded the Student Labor Action Movement and helped out with its Justice for Janitors campaign, which won a 5-dollar raise over the next few years for the university's lowest paid workers.
To learn more about where MGW stands, check out his recent columns in The Crimson:
Crimson: Who's Got the 'View? Crimson: Beyond Bush's Harvard Crimson: Too Cruel for School [The Hardest Class at Harvard